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Nechilwij ne tunal keman yawi muchiwa ne congreso pal naja niajsi. Wan kiunij kichiwket pal nechishmatit ne ishmatijket. Kitaket ka naja niweli nitaketza Nawat wan nusan nitawawasua. Anka yajika ka ne nawi congreso nechilwijket ka yawit nechmakat nutekiw.

She told me the date of the conference so that I would come. And that is how the specialists met me. They saw that I could speak Nawat and write it too. Maybe that is why they told me I would have work in four conferences.

“Are you the fellow who sang a song that time in the church in Santa Catarina?”

and we also ask you never to abandon us for if you leave us Father Sun may kill us in his anger.

Father Corn, we ask you never to abandon us in our home, for if you are absent from our home we shall endure hunger.

Padiush, Nan Tal, ka taja tikitak kwak ninesik, tikitak kwak nipejki niweya, kwak nimuchiwki takat. Mupanpa naja niwelik nikchiwa muchi tay niwelik tik ne tunal, ninemik wejwey takapiltzin, nechmunekiket pal nitekitik iwanmet. Panu sujsul tunal wan nimuchiwki chulet, kunij teya akaj nechneki kwak nikukuya, maya nuiknuwan, kenhayuk nechnekit pero ajsi keman teya akaj nechneki, nan nuiknuwan, ajsi se tunal ka naja nimiki, kunij nan nusiwaw nan nupilawan nechnekit, yawit nechmimat ken kimimat ne kupajsul tik ne kupajsultal, maya taja, Tunan Tal, ashta kwak timikit titechneki ka kunij tiktapua mumajmajkul pal titechnamiki. Yajika timetzilwitiat padiush, Tunan Tal!

Thank you, Mother Earth, because you saw when I was born, you saw when I began to grow, when I became an adult. Thanks to you I was able to do everything I did today, I had a long youth, I was needed for work. After many days I grew old, then nobody wants me when I am ill, only my brothers, they still love me but the day will come when nobody wants me, not even my brothers, the day will come when I die, then not even my wife and my children will want me, they will throw me out as they throw out rubbish, only you, Mother Earth, want us even when we die, for then you open your arms to receive us. For that I thank you, Mother Earth!

— ¿Cuándo vas a regresar?

— Para preguntarle cuándo podran venir mis amigos para que juguemos en mi casa.

— Te keman nikitztuk. Inat ka miak welit taketzat Nawat ka ne.

— Nunca lo he visto. Dicen que mucha gente puede hablar náhuat allí.

— Yo sé, y por eso yo quisiera aprender bien la lengua náhuat y trabajar con ustedes para que apoyemos la hermosa lengua de su pueblo, para que nunca se olvide.

— ¿Cuándo vino?

Nunca te enojes, ve que eso dice mal de ti.

Hay muchas clases de mariposas, unas que salen a volar de día y otras por la noche; pero cuando las persiguen, huyen y no se dejan coger, porque temen morir como nosotros.

Sol, por allá donde tú vas, y de donde vienes, hay niños como yo, que se alegran al verte, cuando apareces por las mañanas tan risueño, bañando la faz con esa tu luz tan agradable para todos?

When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.

Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.

That's what my grandfather and grandmother told me, and big storms always come, but we never saw if one came to fall. So, today I am telling this to my friend so he can take this story with him as a remembrance.

So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".

But when I go back there, I'm going to chew out my mother for what she has given me.